US President Donald Trump has put the axe to the US National Weather Service (NOAA). The hijacking affects both international climate research and local forecasts, experts and staff warn. - It will cost us many lives, a former senior manager told TT.
Scientists from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have been placing recording devices in the deep Pacific Ocean since 2005. They have collected an enormous amount of data, more than 500 TB or almost 200 000 hours of recordings.
Somewhere in the world, almost every week, there is an oil spill in the sea. And while it's only the really big spills that get media attention, all the little ones cause big damage too.
It blows up to a storm over the Atlantic. Record-warm ocean waters and a natural weather phenomenon have experts warning of what could be one of the worst hurricane seasons on record.
Scientists warn that the significant coral bleaching, which the American weather agency NOAA warned about earlier this year, has spread to several places on earth.
